Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H349: אֵיךְ

ʼêyk · pronounced ake · “how?”

Definition

how? or how!; also where

KJV translates it as: how, what.

Word origin: also אֵיכָה ; and אֵיכָכָה ; prolonged from H335 (אַי);

Extended definition

interrog adv
how?

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H349 is translated

  • how? ×52
  • how! ×28
  • where? ×2

Bible verses with H349 (ʼêyk)

ʼêyk appears in 74 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • Genesis 26:9

    And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

  • Genesis 39:9

    There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

  • Genesis 44:8

    Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?

  • Genesis 44:34

    For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

  • Exodus 6:12

    And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

  • Exodus 6:30

    And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

  • Deuteronomy 1:12

    How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

  • Deuteronomy 7:17

    If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

  • Deuteronomy 12:30

    Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

  • Deuteronomy 18:21

    And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken?

  • Deuteronomy 32:30

    How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

  • Joshua 9:7

    And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

  • Judges 16:15

    And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

  • Judges 20:3

    (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

  • Ruth 3:18

    Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.

  • 1 Samuel 16:2

    And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.

  • 2 Samuel 1:5

    And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

  • 2 Samuel 1:14

    And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?

  • 2 Samuel 1:19

    The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

  • 2 Samuel 1:25

    How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

  • 2 Samuel 1:27

    How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

  • 2 Samuel 2:22

    And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

  • 2 Samuel 6:9

    And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?

  • 2 Samuel 12:18

    And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead: for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spake unto him, and he would not hearken unto our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead?

  • 1 Kings 12:6

    And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?

All 74 references

Words derived from H349